Joe""s treatment of the screenplay is criticized by clean-cut, Paramount script reader Betty Schaefer (Nancy Olson) - she denounces it in "a two page synopsis" as being written "from hunger," "a rehash of something that wasn""t very good to begin with," and "flat and trite." She admits that she knows just how he feels - and is unable to believehispreposterous claims of vacationing in Florida." However, Amanda is outraged: "You great big he-men make me sick...An outrage, that""s what I think." She hangs up when Adam infuriates her even further by laughing and remarking: "You just sound cute when you get cause-y.Robinson) and his friend Joe Massara (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) appear in a seamy, run-down diner.After Rico turns the hands on the diner clock back twenty minutes to give them an alibi, Joe compliments his smart nature: "Got to hand it to ya, Rico.